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The Barcode has a Birthday

In early June the UPC code turned 35 years old. This milestone was celebrated in Orlando by attendees at the annual U Connect conference who shared an enormous birthday cake adorned with a bar code. Originally develop to help supermarkets speed up their checkout process; the UPC code has grown to become an international standard [...]

Point of Sale Integration

As we discuss the benefits of launching a website with wine stores, we are often asked to recommend a point-of-sale system POS. Robust integration between a website and the POS is an important element in maintaining an active online presence. To support your business Beverage Media offers five possible points of integration with a POS. [...]

Sharing Information about Wine on an Open Standard

An interesting discussion has begun percolating at the Open Wine Consortium OWC that segues nicely from last month’s column on the heavy lifting that goes into maintaining a wine website. The OWC discussion is about whether it might be possible to conceive of a standard for wine data exchange. The goal would be a widely [...]

Will You Be Pinging Your Inventory Any Time Soon?

There was a vision of the future of wine retailing at this year’s National Retailers Federation NRF convention. A demonstration Wine Cave by IconNicholson presented prototypes of a technology with great potential to improve the operation of liquor stores. In this demo Smart Shelves could identify a bottle on display and presented product information on [...]